Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed : [London?], to [Lady Suffolk], [1759?].

BIB_ID
128793
Accession number
MA 894.7
Creator
Chatham, Hester Grenville Pitt, Countess of, 1720-1803.
Display Date
[1759?].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 23.6 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
Part of a collection of letters from and to William Pitt the Elder and William Pitt the Younger. Letters are described in individual records; see MA 894-895 for more detail.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1912.
Summary
Expressing her concern and that of her husband for the health of his sister; saying that Pitt renewed "his opinion that for her Health and Happiness he judged retreat the best, and Bath the best place in her present State. This Mr. Pitt did both in a view of Letting her know his real opinion if she thought fit to use it (of which He had not much expectation) and to prevent the possibility of her having to say that the step she is taking is with his approbation. Her answer which was Long in coming was wrote with an air of agitation and Distress, which gives us much real pain, but for which there seems no remedy, till her own reason will find it. We know your Ladyship's goodness will make the best use of this account, and are sure your judgment can never fail to suggest to you what is properest in every difficulty."